For almost 20 years a Brazilian worked for United Airlines under a false name as a flight attendant. Nobody noticed, but the man has now ended up in court, because he is said to have simply assumed the identity of a four-year-old boy who was killed in a car accident in 1979.
The whole point of this action was that the 49-year-old needed the US citizenship in order to work as a flight attendant in the United States of America. According to a report by Dailymail, he is said to have received the passport by presenting forged documents and false information at a provincial authority and subsequently to have been able to renew it without hesitation.
For almost 20 years he pretended to be the person who was killed in a car accident in 1979, and nobody noticed at first. The investigators could not find any closer acquaintance between the long deceased and the impostor. The public prosecutor's office is puzzled as to how he was able to get a social security number for the boy who died in the late 1990s and how it was accepted everywhere on top of that. But that wasn't enough: the Brazilian even took out loans, bought a BMW on credit and even managed to get married under a false identity. He was even able to get a house and a mortgage loan. Of course: At United Airlines, for 1970 years no one noticed that a flight attendant was employed under a false identity.
Between 1998 and 2020, the man managed to have “his” US passport reissued six times. However, with the last application, the officers were more attentive and compared databases. So it happened as it had to: He entered the USA in the 1990s with a Brazilian document and for whatever reason fingerprints were taken back then. These were recorded in a database and that seemed strange to the passport office. The Brazilian authorities were contacted and the impostor's mother was identified. The man then exposed himself in questioning.
The airline United Airlines said that the 49-year-old was released without notice immediately after the identity theft became known and that possible legal action was being examined. The man has to go to court anyway, because the public prosecutor's office is bringing charges against a whole range of offenses related to identity theft. According to his attorney, the former United flight attendant has confessed and is currently on pre-trial detention.
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